Guild Wars 2

Hey guys,

I was just having a little play when I noticed somebody link to a waypoint and say something in the vein of ‘Hey guys, x is under attack, need defenders’

There was then a sizeable outpour of people in /y saying things in the vein of ‘Leave it, let it get captured, you don’t get a chest if you defend it’

This kind of took me aback a little. I thought the community in GW2 was above this. I mean, to draw the classic parallel, this isn’t WoW. Surely we’re a little bit more grown up and less materialistic than only caring about how much loot we’re going to get out of a situation?

Anybody else have an opinion on this kind of thing? I raised my point of view in /y chat and was told to various degrees of severity to ‘take a chill pill’ as ’it’s only a game’

Of course, I realise this. I was just kind of disappointed. Does there always have to be a material gain for people to pull their collective fingers out to help? Is the dynamic events system really fulfilling it’s brief if this is the kind of attitude that it’s met with?

This is a bit of a rant but if anyone has any opinions on this please throw them in here to be digested.